You can easily reproduce these events. However, I do not recommend it. It's actually quite unpleasant. It can totally ruin a few hours of your life. Just count your blessings while your run lasts!

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In other news, a few children that attend my finacée's daycare have nosebleeds regularly. They're like 2 years old. The parents don't consider it a problem. It's really pretty sick the world we're living in. I can only imagine tomorrow... Imagine, 2050, average Western lifespan is only 25 years again.

I had someone refer to me as "a young man' the other day. I nearly fell over in shock.

In the past couple years I have been increasingly referred to as "old man", which is really new to me as I am only 53, which I guess seems old to others, doesn't to me. I found the following meme which I may keep on hand for the next time it happens.

I remember having a nose bleed during a final written exam at school. It was pretty bad, so I had to continue writing while more or less facing the ceiling in order to not bleed on the exam (was quite short on time). I sat in the front row and the teacher supervising us was exactly opposite facing me, but he totally didn't care. Although he looked at me there was not a single gesture or anything.

If a teacher ever forced me to sit there while my nose was bleeding, my mother would have returned to the school and yelled his ears off.

There was one time a teacher refused to let me go to the bathroom so I ended up pissing all over at my desk. My mom had to come to school with clean clothes, you could hear her screaming at the Principals office all over the school!

If a teacher ever forced me to sit there while my nose was bleeding, my mother would have returned to the school and yelled his ears off.

In the 80s, we still used the English style schooling system, which included corporal punishment, featuring canes, leather straps and other fun measures. I still have scars on the back of my hand from one teacher who used a metal edged ruler on me every time I used cursive writing instead of printing.

The NZ education system at the time was modeled on the English education system, but behind by a couple of decades. By the time I left school, corporal punishment was being abolished.

I wish they'd bring it back. Most of the younger generation I've come across could have done with a bit more discipline.

edit: I have a book that I acquired from a friend's grandmother who had been a teacher in the 1950s-1960s titled "Educating Backwards Children In New Zealand." I miss the days when nobody had heard of political correctness.

In the 80s, we still used the English style schooling system, which included corporal punishment, featuring canes, leather straps and other fun measures.

Yeah, I went to school in the '70s mostly. We used to go to the principals office and he would just tap this thick leather strap on his hand while talking to you and that was often enough to scare you into submission. The really bad students got it, but it was rare as most didn't do anything bad enough to warrant it.

I hated school growing up. Not because I didn't like learning, I loved that, but due to bullies. At one point I would skip school and go to the public library and spend most of the day there reading about radio electronics and eventually, when computers came out, I started reading books on programming them. For this reason I am a strong advocate of home schooling.